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ticarum haud extensa, posticis macula lunata in angulo 

 externo cost^ lunulaque parva ad angulum analem luteis, 

 lunulis 4 subapicalibus, fere indistinctis^ viridi-atomosis. 



Expans. alar. unc. 3|. 



Hah. ? la Muss. Hewitson et Druce. 



This fine insect belongs to the Palinurus group, and 

 is closely allied to P. Btama and DcpJalus, but is distin- 

 guished by its larger size, and by the great extent of the 

 fascia in the hind-wings; in the fore-wings this gradually 

 widens from the costa to the inner margin, where it is 

 half an inch in breadth; its margin towards the base 

 of the wing is nearly straight, but on the side next the 

 apical margin it is more scalloped between the veins ; 

 it extends exactly to the extremity of the discoidal cell 

 between the two discocellular veins, but beyond the cell 

 between the upper of these veins and the fore-margin ; 

 in the hind-wings, it forms a large oval patch, occupying 

 the whole central disc of the wing, gradually shaded off 

 behind, and not reaching to the costa, but extends up- 

 wards along the anal margin, and covers portion of the 

 discoidal cell; the basal portion of all the wings is 

 thickly powdered with golden green scales, the apical 

 portion of the fore-wings being much more strongly 

 irrorated with them ; near the outer angle of the hind- 

 wings, is a fulvous broadly lunate spot, and a smaller 

 and narrower one near the anal angle; the tail is not 

 powdered with scales ; between the large discoidal spot, 

 and the hinder margin of the hind- wings, is a series 

 of four very obscure lunules formed of a few green scales, 

 and there are a few fulvous scales in the space next the 

 outer angle. The wings below are brown, the whole of 

 the dark portion which extends to beyond the middle of 

 the wings being thickly irrorated with luteous scales, 

 which are thickest on the inner portion of the basal part 

 of the fore- wings, and the basal portion of the hind- wings 

 (extending to about the extremity of the abdomen) in 

 which parts the ground-colour is paler brown ; a very 

 pale buff-brown fascia on the fore-wings commences at a 

 greater distance from the end of the discoidal cell than 

 the extremity of the blue-green fascia reaches on the 

 upper side of the fore-wings, and is traversed by the 

 black veins and the brown intermediate longitudinal 

 folds. The apical margin is brown, gradually narrowing 

 from the apex to the inner angle of the fore- wings. On 



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